[PyQt] PyQt Digest, Vol 139, Issue 6

[Steve Waterbury]

On 02/05/2016 04:25 PM, David Cortesi wrote:
>     From: Steve Waterbury <waterbug at pangalactic.us
>     Any ideas on this one?
>
>      > I'm using a QTableView with a QSortFilterProxyModel.
>      > When I first instantiate and populate the
>      > table view, I call resizeColumnToContents on each
>      > column, followed by resizeRowsToContents on the table
>      > view (there are some multi-line cells).
>      >
>      > However, the sizing to contents is lost when a sort is done
>
> You need to grab some signal that is emitted when the sort completes and
> the view has been completely repopulated with sorted data. (Sort
> indicator changed might not necessarily correspond to that.) My guess
> would be  modelReset. I *think* the way the sort filter proxy works is,
> it tells the view, modelAboutToBeReset, then modelReset, which makes the
> view repopulate itself by calling the data() method of the model.

Seemed like a logical approach but doesn't work -- thanks anyway.
I guess I will have to implement the sort myself and refresh the
view.  I'm rather surprised that Qt doesn't handle this rather
simple scenario!

Steve